84 The percentage of British households under the impression that they don't waste significant amounts of food.
Long an advocate of the concept of utility computing, analogous to the way electricity is currently delivered, Mr. Hillis said he realized that large companies were wasting significant time assembling their own systems from small building blocks.
Expanding marketplace interactions with both recyclables and waste, significant land use and transportation effects, technological advances and progressive ideas about ways to reduce waste-generation and export costs all support the need for a czar with broad vision and authority to craft a long-term plan.
Easterly listed dozens of countries that wasted significant amounts of aid, including Kenya, Tanzania, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Nicaragua, Haiti, and, most notoriously of all, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), where Mobutu Sese Seko and his cronies shipped money out of the country to their private bank accounts as fast as the World Bank and the I.M.F. could send it in.
Committee member Richard Bacon said: "It is unacceptable that the Ministry of Defence is wasting significant amounts of public money buying equipment and supplies that it doesn't need.
"Mobile price plans become significantly expensive if you exceed your allowance - people try to avoid that but end up overshooting and that means wasting significant money on line rental".
It now reads: "[I]f the shutdown lasts longer than 24 hours, government-owned research vessels may have to return to port, wasting significant time and money when they have to be redeployed".
In addition, the government has wasted significant resources pursuing this case.
Now he has a new line: Nanny state-imposed speed limits waste significant time -- "lifetimes," even -- for Americans.
If this is true, antibiotic use may be wasting significant resources.
